Maidmarian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maidmarian \Maid`ma"ri*an\, n. [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary,
     or the Virgin Mary.]
     1. The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a
        morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque
        character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in
        woman's clothes.


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     2. A kind of dance. --Sir W. Temple.
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